VW Passat - Volkswagen is the #2 brand in the UK this month. * See the Top 10 best-selling models and Top 40 All-brands by clicking on the title * Nothing is stopping the UK market's advance: April marks the 38th consecutive month of year-on-year gains at +5% to 185.778 registrations,…
Kawei is bringing a bit of Beijing spontaneity to Shanghai. The moment you have all been waiting for has finally arrived. Now an annual tradition at BSCB, I give you the ranking of the Chinese carmakers that impressed me the most at Auto Shanghai 2015. If last year in Beijing…
Shanghai Pudong street scenes After going through the highlights of Auto Shanghai 2015 and before I give you my ranking of the most impressive Chinese carmakers at the Show, it’s time to go wandering in the streets of Shanghai so I can share with you what the most popular cars…
The Ford Escort is now among China's Top 10 most popular nameplates. * See the Top 356 All-local models by clicking on the title * The Chinese new light vehicle market is up 9% year-on-year in March to 1.87 million units, once again boosted by surges in the SUV (+54%) and…
The Geely Emgrand 7 misses out on the models #1 spot for 207 sales. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 389 All-models ranking - Click on title to see * Impacted full-frontal by the Crimea crisis, Ukrainian new car sales plunge 54% year-on-year in 2014 to just 97,020 registrations. In…
The MG GS Rui Teng is one of the best Chinese designs so far. * See the Top 350 All-local models by clicking on the title. Pricing info from Carnewschina * As is the tradition on BSCB, we first explore the monthly Chinese ranking, then detail the all-new models that make their entrance in the…
The Jaguar F-Type cracks the Top 150 at home over the period. * See the Top 360 All-models ranking by clicking on the title * We are catching up on lost time with UK sales data: today I can give you a Top 360 All-models ranking for the first 9 months…
The Stepway variant accounts for 80% of Renault Sandero sales in Belarus. * See the Top 150 best-selling models and Top 36 All-brands by clicking on the title * New light vehicle sales in Belarus are up 3% year-on-year in 2014 to reach an all-time record 29,552 registrations - including…
The new model propels the Nissan Note to #27 in the UK over H1 2014. * See the Top 350 All-models ranking by clicking on the title * Always a bit of delay for detailed UK sales data, but it's worth the wait: today I can give you a Top…
Toyota Yaris (Chinese model shown) * NOW UPDATED with the Top 193 All-models and Top 40 All-brands * Catastrophic year for new car sales in Thailand: as soon as the government's "first car" incentive program was ditched in mid-2013, the market has fallen back to 2011 levels. If a very strong first…
The A3 is the first-ever Audi to rank inside the annual UK Top 10 (#8). * See the Top 20 best-selling models and Top 45 brands by clicking on the title * Thanks to unfailing growth throughout the year, the UK new car market jumps by a fantastic 9% year-on-year in…
King Long Minivan in Old Bagan, Myanmar - December 2014 If Chinese manufacturers have been one of the fastest off the starting blocks at establishing a new car showroom presence in Yangon, this has not translated (yet) onto the car landscape. A recent articles in the Myanmar Times estimated the…
Dongfeng Motors (DFM) showroom on Baho Road, Yangon Now that we have explored in detail the (used) car landscape in Yangon and Bagan, we get back to Yangon to study a new phenomenon in Myanmar: new car showrooms. With the country loosening up its political situation and opening up to…
The JAC Refine S3 outsells all foreign SUVs in China this month. * See the Top 343 All-local models ranking by clicking on the title * New light vehicles sales are up 5% year-on-year in China to 1.775.300 units in November, and once again the entire market is single-handedly lifted by…
Mercedes C-Class * See the Top 10 best-selling models and Top 42 brands by clicking on the title * One more! UK new car sales celebrate 33 consecutive months of year-on-year gains with November deliveries up 8% on the year before to 172,327 units, bringing the year-to-date total to 2,310,237…